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< Yes, sir,” says Miss Mary.
A re you gwine 1” axed Crotchet.
j blieve mother intends to go.”
Very glad,” said he, ‘‘l’ll be very much
obliged to attend you.”
•• Mother is gvvine, 1 blieve.
“But won’t yuu go too—l’m certain to
cum after you—cum, you must say”—-
“It’s most ten,” says I, “but he didn t pay
no ’tention to that.”
“ Shall I have the pleasure, Miss
“ It’s ten o’clock,” says I, agin, “and I’m
w - lne an d I looked at the feller and then
shook my hed to Miss Mary.”
“ I'll /all for you, Miss Mary,” sed Mr.
Crotchet, pickin up his hat.
Miss Mary didn t say nothin but kind o
smiled, I thot.
“ Good evemn, Miss Mary, says I.
“ That I won’t, not these times,” says old
Miss Stallions jest wakin up.
“Good evenin ladies,” says Crotchet.
Well, the next mornin don’t you think
Miss Mary went to meetin with that imper
ent cus, and I had to lake old Miss Stallions
and Miss Callinc, and Cousin Pete tuck
Miss Ivesiah. Thar he was, shore enuf, and
no body couldn’t git to say a word to Miss
Mary, and fore the gals was out of the dore
he had her arm in his. I never felt jest zact
ly so cheap afore in my life, to see that jour
neyman fiddler, what no body didn’t know
nothin ’bout walkin long with Miss Mary,
stickin his big whiskers rite down under
her bonnet, talkin to her and grinnin like a
baked possum. And what made me feel
worse was,she seemed to take it all so migh
ty fine. Miss Calline says I mustn’t mind
it, cause she couldn’t help herself. But I
mean to find out all ’bout it, and if she is big
enuf fool to be tuck in by sicli small taters
as he is, I’ll jest drop the whole hisness at
once, for theraint nothin in creation I hates
wors’n a coquet. No more from
Your fiend til deth,
JOS. JONES.
F. S. I don’t want you to think I’m jel
ous, cans I aint,*by no means. Idon’tz.act
]y like the ’pearance of things — but I aint
jelous of Crotchet; only if Miss Mary Stall
ions goes to meetin any more with him, she
don’t never go tliar witli Joseph Jones—
that’s all.
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Saturday, November 12, 1542.
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THE CURRENCY.
Marty of our readers having expressed a
desire that we should furnish them with a
hank note table, and as we have not at pre
sent type sufficiently small to enable as to
condense such a table into reasonable di
mensions, we have adopted the following
manner of keeping them regularly advised
of the fluctuations of the money market.
The fullest reliance may be placed in our
list, as it will be corrected weekly from the
most authentic sources.
Pur Banks. —The issues of the following
banks are received at par in Augusta : Au
gusta Insurance and Banking Company—
Hank of Augusta—Branch State of Geor
gia at Augusta—Agency Bank of Bruns
wick—Branch Georgia Rail Road—Me
chanics’ Bank—Bank of St. Mary’s—Bank
‘>f Milledgeville— Bank of the State of
Georgia, at Savannah—Commercial Bank
at Macon—Georgia Rail Road and Banking
Company Athens—Marine and Fire Insur
ance Bank, Savannah—branch of ditto, at
Macon—Planters’ Bank, Savannah—Ruck
ersville Banking Company Exchange
Hank, Brunswick Charleston Banks—
Hank of Camden—Bank of Georgetown-*-
Commercial Bank, Columbus—Merchants’
Hank at Cheraw—Bank of Hamburg.
Bank* at Discount. —Phoenix Bank at
Columbus, at 6u 10 cents discount; Oc
mulgee Bank, 5 a s£; Central Bank of
Georgia, 20 a22 ; Central Rail Road and
Hanking Company at Savannah, 6; Insur
ance Bank of Columbus, at Macon, 6 a 10;
Alabama notes, 14 a 16 ; Bank of Hawkins
ville, 25 a 28.
No Sale or uncertain. —The following
hanks ate thus quoted : Bank of Darien
and Branches ; Bank of Columbus ; Chat
tahoochie Rail Road and 4 Banking Compa
ny ; Monroe Rail Road and Banking Com
pany ; Planters’ and Mechanics’ Bank, Co
lumbus; Western Bank of Georgia, at
Rome.
“THE MAGNOLIA”
For November, is before us in due sea
sou, but without the engraving of “ Charles
ton one hundred years ago,” which we un
derstood was to accompany it as belonging
to the assets of the “Chicora,” which lias
been merged in the “ Magnolia.” This,
however, is a matter of little consequence,
as we doubt not the readers of the weekly
will be well enough content with the change
to drop the engravings. These pictures are
dangerous things—the rock on which our
southern periodicals seem doomed to split.
We have learned the policy of letting our
illustrations speak for themselves—of pub
lishing them when we have got them, with
out a flourish of promises beforehand. This
saves our credit and enables us to give our
readers an agreeable surprise, now and then.
We shall have the exquisite pleasure one of
these days—that is,if our patronage increases
and we continue to grow in favor as we now
do—of taking our readers all aback with
promises—we have too many unfortunate
examples before our eyes, even if we were
that way inclined.
But engravings have nothing to do with
the “ Magnolia”—it has not made or bro
ken any promises in this line. The number
before us is a good one, though rather wasp
ish, perhaps, for the taste of some. The re
view of the Bishop of Blois’ work on “ The
Literature of the Negro,” is just, and good,
and true—an excellent article—but we think
the reviews of “ Tecumseh,” and “Ahas
uerus,” rather severe—rather illiberal, com
ing from the source they do. In the first,
we think the charge of plagiarism, so harsh
ly denounced against the author, not fully
sustained. Writers in the same language
must occasionally fall on the use of the same
words—and if an idea should chance to re
semble slightly one that had been used be
fore-, the circumstance hardly justifies the
charge of “theft,” as applied by the review
er to Mr. Colten. “ Tecumseh” is by no
means a faultless production—there is room
for improvement in many respects —in phras
eology, versification and arrangement. Nev
eitheless, we conceive the author entitled to
much more scope and license than has been
allowed him in this review by a brother poet.
We think Mr. Simms would hardly like to
see some of his own poetic web measured
l>y the same stick. *
THE LEGISLATURE
Convened at Milledgeville on Monday
morning,the 7th instant. Robert M. Echols
was elected President of the Senate, the
Whigs voting for Andrew J. Miller. The
vote stood 50 for Echols and 31 for Miller.
Mr. Jackson, of Walton, was elected Secre
tary, R. E. Brown, of Houston, Messenger,
and W. G. Roper, of Muscogee, Door
keeper.
Mr. Wofford, of Habersham, was elected
Speaker of the House, upon the 4lh ballot.
Mr. Dyson, of Wilkes, was elected Clerk,
W. Browu, of Pike, Messenger, and Ben
jamin Brewster, of Fayette, Doorkeeper.
On the following morning the two Houses
met, and after completing their organization
adjourned until 3 o'clock, when the Gover
nor’s Message was received. The Message
is a document of unusual length and doubt
less of much interest, but we are hardly
wide enough between the eyes,as our friend
Jones would say, to undertake its perusal
just now. The editor of the “ Constitu
tionalist” has read it, and has given a synop
sis of the Governor’s views, from which we
make the following extracts, for the benefit of
such of our readers as may not have read the
Message in the political papers:
The recommendations of the Governor
are just and will no doubt receive as they
deserve the deliberate consideration of the
legislature. The members of that body
should never lose sight of this position in
the message, that “ it is in vain that it is said
in favni of a currency, that the credit of the
State is pledged to sustain it, unless that
credit be made available when it is needed.
The time has arrived when it must be de
monstrated what that State credit is worth:
The obligations of honor and morality are
to be enforced.” The Governor states that
the liabilities of the Central Bank, includ
ing the 8 percent, bonds, amount to $1,700,-
000, and the assets, exclusive of the stock
of the Darien Bank and of old claims,
amount to $2,100,000, consisting of notes
and bills discounted, and of stock of specie
paying banks. The Governor recommends
that the bank should not be permitted to
add one dollar to its circulation for any pur
pose whatever, until it extinguishes its lia
bilities of every description, and shall be
able to redeem its issues with specie. This
is an excellent recommendation ; and if the
legislature carry it into effect, it will follow
that another recommendation of the Gover
nor will have to be adopted, which is to re
quire the tax on bank stock to be paid in
specie, as well as portions of the general
tax, sufficient to pay the entire interest of
the public debt.
He tecoinmends the completion of the
Western and Atlantic Rail Road, so far as
the Etowah, as limited in the act passed at
the last session of the Legislatute, and of
the whole length of the road as soon as it
can be done.
We are glad to find that he recommends
the renewal of the annual appropriation to
the Georgia University, repealed by an act
of the last legislature. He suggests a radi
cal change in our school system.
He recommends a valuation Jaw on pro
perty levied on for debts, under certain re
strictions.
We approve his suggestions in regard to
3x>inawi mm, it Hta3sißiLibA.!i'ar
State banks which do not comply with their
engagements. All banks which have viola
ted the spirit and the letter of their char
ters should lie compelled to closetheir doois
and wind up their affairs.
He justly recommends the repeal of the
free banking law.
He recommends an amendment of the
constitution respecting a reduction of mem
bers in both branches of the legislature.
{jCf* It is stated in the late Baltimore pa
pers that the Constitution 44, the Marion
sloop-of-war, and the schooners just return
ed from Florida, are ordered forthwith to
proceed to Vera Cruz. By this sudden
movement it would seem that there was
somctliingumisual “inthe wind.” It isalso
rumored that the Cabinet will be reorgan
ized before the meeting of Congress, by Mr.
Webster retiring from and Mr. Cushing go
ing into it. Mr. Spencer or Mr. Usher are
spoken of as Secretary of State. We have
also seen it intimated that matters were like
ly to be accommodated between Mr. Cass
and Mr. Everett so as to give Mr. Webster
the Ministry to the Court of St. James.
Ct'r’’ Wecan gat he mo news of importance
from Texas. From all accounts it would
seem that General Wool had retired from
the country, and that little danger is to be
apprehended at present from an invasion of
the country by the Mexicans. The Presi
dent has issued his orders to Brigadier Gen
eral Summerville to march immediately to
some eligible point on the south-western
frontier of Texas, and there to concentrate
his forces, with which, should he deem them
sufficient to guarantee a prospect of success,
he is to penetrate the enemy’s country. —
“ In battle,” remarks the President in his
orders, “let the enemy feel the fierceness
of just resentment and retribution.” Give
it to them, say we, the dogs have no friends
in a free country.
07“ A great Abolition row came off at
Faneuil Hall, Boston, recently. The Abol
itionists convened on Sunday night, to ex
press their indignation at the legal proceed
ings in a case of arrest, in which a gentle
man from Virginia claimed a very bright
complexioned negro, as his slave. Mr.
Leavitt, a celebrated fanatic in the Aboli
tion cause, made a violent speech, offered
some very severe resolutions, and finally in
troduced upon the stage a “ nigger getnen”
by the romantic name of Mr. Charles Leon
ard Remond, who was about to give the
congregation a touch of his nigger eloquence,
when the proceedings were seriously inter
rupted by *• groans, hisses, and the most un
earthly sounds, such as ‘ down with the nig
ger !’ ‘ turn the darky over!’ ‘ tip him into
the pit!’ ‘down with the d—d nigger!’”
Ac. Ac., which finally resulted in open riot,
and the meeting broke up in a general row.
Several black, white and mixed colored nig
gers, of both sexes, got more or less rough
ly handled. Thank God, there are white
men with white men’s principles, even in
Boston !
07“ At the late Fair of the American
Institute in New York, Mr. Meigs in his
address on the occasion said, “ that the only
cotton grown in the Uuited States at a peri
od within the memory of man was when
the daughter of the patriotic Gen. Greene
raised a few shrubs in bean-pots, upon a
Georgia Sea Island, for the sake of the pret
ty flowers. What,” he asked, “ would have
been said, if at that time, it had been pre
dicted that in fifty years the fibre of that
vegetable would furnish from the United
States, cloth enough to make a shirt for each
of the human race —one thousand millions!”
07“ Some of the Northern editors are
boasting of the ugliness of their female ac
quaintance# One says there are three rath
er hard featured ladies now residing in a
village in the State of New York, about
five miles from Cabbage Palace. One of
them ftiglitened a hail storm so it stopped,
by thrusting her head out of the window.
A second made an ox shed his horns by
looking at him, and the third made a roast
pig squeal on the table. A portrait painter
is stated to have attempted the portrait of
the latter, but her face was so crooked that
the paint would not lie still on the canvass.
If this be true, we do not wonder so ma
ny Northern men of taste come to the South
to procure wives. We have no such var
mints, as those described, in Georgia. On
the contraiy, we know faces whose melting
sweetness would dissolve a hail storm with
a look, and make it to descend in a gentle
shower—others whose surpassing loveliness
would tame the wildest brute, or cause a
roasted shoat to open his crisped eyes to
steal one glance. Georgia girls for beauty,
against the world !
(IT** The “ New York Herald” has been
withdrawn from sale, the Editor stating that
without giving up the proprietorship, he has
mude arrangements to establish a branch
newspaper in London and Paris, in the
course of next spring and summer.
“ I am descended from a great house,” as
tbo hod-man said, when he had come down
from the roof of a five story mansion.—Ex
change paper.
07* !>ucli a descent is as good as any other
if it is not too direct and precipitate.
COTTON MARKET.
Cotton has come in freely during the past
five days, 1,095 bales having been received
in that time; about two thirds of which has
been purchased here, at prices winging from
4 to 6 cents —principal sales at 5 cents. The
news from Europe is still unfavorable—Cot
tori dull and tending downward.
ALL THE ARTS THROWN IN THE SHADE.
“Tut, tut,” saida gentleman of our ac
quaintance the other day, “ talk of your oil
colors, your water colors, miniature paint
ing, and Daguereotype as much as you like,
1 have discovered a process by which the
most perfect likenesses are taken without
tlie use of colors, or even the light of the
sun. None of your Duguere’s, but real life
and soul likenesses—true as nature herself
—preserving with the most astonishing pre
cison the slightest shade in the flesh-tints—
the very air and character of the head—the
meaning of the face. I have taken my whole
family in this way, from the oldest to the
ypungest, and nothing could exceed the
truthfulness with which the soberness of age
and the vivacity of youth are portrayed.—
Why, sir, you could almost see my mothei
speaking through her snuff obstructed nose,
and the baby is in the very act of crowing
at the stick of candy in its hand. The pic
tures are to the life, and theprocess issosim
ple—within the reach of every family—can
be taken at any time, in the twinkling of an
eye.”
“Is it possible 1” said we, “ what new
wonder is this ?” prepared as we were for
some astounding announcement, as, indeed,
we are for almost any thing, in these days
of Mesmerism, Magnetism, and mysteries.
“Ob, no wonder at all, sir—none at all—
simplest thing in the world ; though I con
fess it: Is very slightly appreciated. But I
have always attributed this circumstance to
the fact of its remarkable truthfulness. A
good mirror will not flatter, which you know
is the great secret of popularity.”
“A mirror! and is it a mirror you have
been talking of all this time 1”
“To be sure, what else could perform
such miracles in the limning art?” said our
friend, as he bowed us good by.
“ Bah !” thought we, “ how we have been
quizzed.”
07“ We learn from the “ Magnolia” that
our accomplished fellow-citizen Richard
Henry Wilde, is engaged upon a Lite of
Dante, which will shortly be given to the
public. No abler pen could be selected for
the task, and the admirers of the great poet
may expect a work, —a biography cre
ditable alike to the author and its illus
trious subject.
07” The Monroe Rail Road seems to
have run into a streak of good luck of late.
Not long since the city of Savannah voted
a loan of $50,000, and we are told by the
Milledgeville papers that the Governor sub
scribed on Saturday last to $200,000 of the
stock, the company having complied with
the condition authorizing the subscription
on the part of the State.
EXECUTION OF LORE.
The last “ Columbus Enquirer” contains
an account of the execution of the outlaw
George W. Lore, by the citizens of Glenn
ville, Ala. It seems that about two years
since Lore was tried for the murder of a
man by the name of Blake. The jury made
a miss-trial and the prisoner was admitted
to bail, but was subsequently arrested by
the citizens. This spring he was again
brought to trial, found guilty and sentenced
to be hung, but before the day of execu
tion, anew trial was granted, and Lore again
admitted to hail. When the day for the
new trial came, he was missing, since when
he has roamed the country an armed out
law, until he was retaken by the citizens, on
the 30th ultimo. The “ Enquirer” gives
the following account of the execution :
“ On Tuesday, the citizens of Glennville
and vicinity assembled, in number about
160, to take into consideration the policy of
turning him over to the authorities of the
county, to await his new trial. After the
most thorough consultation, this large body
agreed to leave it to vote what should be
done with the prisoner. Those in favor of
giving him up to the civil authorities were
desired to march down the road —two went.
Those in favor of executing him without
any furthercercmony, were desired to inarch
up the road —one hundred and thirty-six
went up the road. Those who had no choice
remained stationary, in all twenty-two. This
vote we understand was taken after Lore
had made a full statement of his case, and
pressed upon the multitude all the argu
ments that be bad to offer in bis defence.
In the midst of so much unanimity, and in
view of his having been previously found
guilty by a jury of his countrymen and sen
tenced to be hanged, he was taken to the
gallows prepared for the occasion, and exe
cited in the presence of the assembled
crowd, at 4 o’clock on Wednesday last, the
2J instant.”
Upon whicli the editor makes some very
just reflections,denouncingsueb a violation of
the law and order of civilized society in
merited terms of rebuke. We freely en
dorse every word of the editor, but we
would also make a suggestion to the press,
whose duty it is to watch over the public
weal,Dd guard the well-being of the commu
nity. Should not public censors look to the J
bottom of public evils ? should not the press
be as reaJy to discern and denounce the
cause as the effect ? Will any one say that
the great mnj< r'.ty of the outrages upon the
deceucy and order of society that are daily
perpetrated have not their cause in the very
sources of our civil government. When
jurors and judges neglect or transcend the
duties assigned them by the law of the land
—when crimes of the most heinous and
dangerous character are perpetrated with
impunity, and there is no protection of life
or property in the arm of the law, what are
the inevitable consequences to society? One
of two evils—either that the people must
live in constant dread and insecurity, the
victims of evil doers, or they must in turn
set the law at defiance, and take judgment
and execution into their own hands—either
of which are fearful alternatives.
Every day do we hear of outrages such
as that detailed above, very few of which hut
can he traced to the cause to which we have
alluded. We might cite numerous cases
of judicial outrage ; the case above seems
to us one in point—that of Willis Alston is
another, and cases have recently ttarispired
in our own State at which justice should
drop her scales and blush. Let the piess
speak out—let the regular constituted tribu
nals of the country be held responsible for
the proper administration of the laws, and
the jurisdiction of Judge Lynch will no long
er be acknowledged, nor his court recogni
zed as the High Court of Appeal* which it
has grown to he, so infinitely to our national
disgrace.
{t/ 5 * By an advertisement on the fourth
page it will be seen that the annual Exami
nation of the Female Academy, fvill take
place on Wednesday and Thursday next.
(£/“ Dow, Jr., of the New York “Sun
day Mercury,” has a peculiar way of saying
some very fine things. Themockish wood
cut, lepresenting a preacher ludiciously de
clamingfrom the pulpit, with some irrever
ent and coarse expressions which we read
in the first “ Short Patent Sermon” which
we looked into, at first prejudiced us against
his productions, as having a tendency to
bring into ridicule and light esteem the sa
cred desk. We have since, how ever, been
much entertuined by his very quaint lectures
on all varieties of subjects ; and though we
cannot say that we exactly approve of the
manner in which these weekly essays are
put forth on the Sabbath, yet we are not so
sure hut they have the power of doing good.
They do doubtless fall into the hands of ma
ny who never hear any oilier preaching—
the quaintness of the style attracts the at
tention of such, and when he discourses up
on such sober themes as that upon which he
treats below, may not serious impressions be
made upon the mi ml, and reflection be arous
ed, in spite of the admixture of ludicrous
comparison, and irreverent humor with
which his writings abound ? Speaking of
Church-yard iambics, he says—
“My hearers —Melancholy sometimes feeds
the soul with the sweetest of moral molas
ses. It furnishes the mind with meditative
wings, with which it speeds its way to the
blooming paradise of ideality, where it
sports amid flowers, that look pale to the
eve, hut impart pleasing odors to the senses.
For my part, my friends, 1 like to seek shel
ter occasionally from the storms of care and
folly, under the branches of yews andcy*
presses, that wave over the silent sepulchres
of the dead. I love to go there at twiliight
grey—between sundown and dark—as the
gentle dews descend to moisten the heart
—render it pliable ns new made putty, and
as capable of receiving as holy impressions
as that of a sinner when soaked in Chris
tianity. and touched by the finger of Faith.
Yes, I love to go there at twiliight hour; for
that is emblematical of the evening of age,
when the sun of existence is about to set
forever, and the dark wing of the engel of
Death is soon to overshadow the bright land
scape >f life. 1 love to tread the sacred
ground, and read upon the moss-gtowu
stones who sleeps heloiv. They tell me
that the high, the low, the rich, the poor,
the proud and the humble, all slumber
quietly together in one common bed : that
here no jarring discord is ever heard : here
calumny loses its power to stain : heie the
sod sucks the poison from the tongue of
slander : here the laurel leavesin the wreath
of fame—which now find a cold inanimate
bunch of clay—are only kept green in the
sunlight of memory; and here the once
warm Ixwom of love is as cold as the hack
of a hull frog.”
What a leap from acomparatively sublime
to the incomparably ridiculous ! He pro
ceeds with his grave subject:
“ Myfiiends—asl meditate over the lone
ly spot where the wearied and worn out
ones of earth repose, I cannot but think
that soon I must end my own mortal pil
grimage, and lie down by their sides to nap
it till the archangel’s trumpet shall proclaim
the breaking of an immortal day. It is im
possible for me, too, to scare or coax the
thought away, that when I am defunct, the
rank weeds and tall grass of forgetfulness
will cover my grave, and the moss of obli
vion conceal my name from the world for
ever. It will he just my luck, and no dis
appointment, if it hapjien to turn out so. 1
care not, however —for what am I, hut n
mere speck of dirt upon the fine cambric of
creation, destined to crawl about for n brief
hour, ami then dissolve and unite the com
monest kind of dust! Why should I cra\e
to have my name everlastingly engraved
upon the monument of memory, while my
body is being powdered by the worms, m and
my ‘spirit is too far off to be reached with
the long pole of posthumous praise, or be
tickled whh a short feather of flattery. No
—my mortal part is trash ; good for nothing
hut to enrich the soil whence it sprung ; and,
as for my name—let H die like an echo in a
solitary wild ! for it is no more worth pick
ling in the heart of posterity than a pair of
buckskin breech.es are fit to He chopped in
to cold slaw. When I look around me amt
see the wondrous works of the great Crafts
tor's hand, 1 feel myself brought into the
smallest possible focus of insignificance. I
feel so small that my clothes seem to hang
as loosely upon me as a shirt upon a fire
shovel.”
Another! But hear him through.
My dear friends— go at the evening hour,
when the plaintive robin sings a vesper
hymn in his cypress liower—when the night
winds breathe sacred melodies through the
sombre branches of the yew— ponder over
the silent tombs of the departed— shed a
tear upon the green tuif above them; the
Srth will absorb it, and prevent its weltifig
e cold cheek of the dead. Go, ye care
less and gay ! and there consider on what
swift pinions flies the hour of joy. There
ask yourselves if gaiety can lestoro long
vanished years ; or if it can cheer the ‘dark,
dark mansion of Death.’ Go, ye young
and beautiful! you will there learn that
some of tho most promising plants of youth
have been wbithered by tho frosts of the
tomb, and there loses for ever its power to
charm. Go, ye proud ! there see how the
monarch and the slave are mouldering to
gether; and swear, if you can, that there
are the ashes of honor, and here is the dust
of disgrace.”
Such a paragraph would grace a mote
pretending sermon.
“My hearers— if you were all to saunter
occasionally along the boDe-paved streets of
the City of the Dead, you would once in a
while be reminded that you are doomed to
die; and would accordingly make every
necessary preparation, instead of cantering
along the highway of vice and wickedness,
as though there was no end to the pleasant
journey of life. Let me tell you, my dear
friends, that Spring will weave but a few
more green carpets to cover the spots where
you are to lie, before it woiks a coverlid for
youi carcases. A few more years and you
will he kicked from the Almighty’s footstool
into the dark and uncertain gulf of eternity
—the record of your good deeds will bo
lost in the rubbish of ages—your very sig
natures will be erased by the blotting pen
of time—and you will soak ijito the ground
like drops of water to ascend in spiritual
vapor to regions beyond the sky. Posteri
ty may knock at the door where aredepos
ited your mortal remains, but no answer
will lie given : the chariots of future gene
rations may thunder over your graves, but
they w’ll disturb not the sound slumbers of
your bodies; for they must sleep on, un
visited by dreams, till awakened by the loud
resurrection call. Prepare, then, for the
crisis while the soul acts m partnership with
the body, so that, in the decline of life, tho
former may he rocked in the cradle of hope,
aiui the hitter meet with that sweet repose
which an invalid may obtain in one of King's
celebrated rocking chairs—which, I am in
formed, can be had at 455 Broadway. So
mote it be!”
Thusthe reader has auliolesale furniture
warehouse puff', pitched tight into his mouth
befote he can shut it.
AIDVERiraSIEIKAiENTC.
Watch Repairing,
By Charles Win, Richter,
Next door to Alfred Shaw’s Furniture Store.
WATCHES of every description carefully adjusted,
mid warranted. Charges made according to tbs
repairs, at reduced rates.
Particular attention will be paid in adjusting Lever
and Anchor Watches.
November 12 Jy33
The Public
A RE cautioned against trading for four certain pro*
■lx missorv Notes, each for three hundred and nineteen
dollars and seventy-lhree cents ond a halt; given by
myself to Allred Brooks, and dated the first of Febru
ary, 1812. As the consideration for which those notes
were given is about to tie wrested from my possession
by legal process, I am determined not to pay them un
less compelled by Lav,-.
X 7 , c. R HANLEITER.
November 12 3w33
Lo4fc at this!
TUILL be sold on the 19th day of December next, at
y Buckhead, (the former residence of John Emerson,
deceased,) all the perishable property of said deceased,
consisting ol house hold and kitchen furniture, farming
tools, stock of horses, hogs and cows, one good yoke of
working steers, two carts, one road wagon and harness,
one cotton gin, one thresher and fan, n quantity of cot
ton seed, an excellent screw for packing cotton, and
other articles too numerous to insert conveniently in an
advertisement Also, the lands of said deceased will ,
be rented, and the negroes hind, for the next year
Among the negroes there are some excellent field
hands, nod one good Blacksmith. Terms on thq day
of sale. Bale to continue from dnv fodav until bH is
disposed of BENJ. JW. PEEPLES, Adm’r.
Morgan County, November 12, 1842. td33
Administratrix’s Sale.
WILL be sold on Thursday, tlie 22ddnv of Decern
y ber next, at Cabin Point, (the late residence of
James H Reid, deceased,) all the personal property be
longing to the estate of said Reid, consisting of three
horses, corn, fodder, cotton, cart and steers, a small
stock “f cattle, hogs, household and kitchen furniture,
&.c Terms on the day of sale.
ANN T- REID, Administratrix.
November 12 td33
Notice.
ALL persons having demnnds against the estate of
-tx John Emerson, deceased, are notified to present
them in terms Ol the law, and those indebted to snid
estate are earnestly requested to pay the same, as the
interest ol the creditors and legatees require the affairs
of the estate to tie settled as soon ns practicable.
BENJAMIN M PEEPLES, Adm’r.
November 12 6w-33
Boots and Shoes!
THE subscriber most respectfully informs Ids old cu
•*- toinern, and the public generally, that he still con
tinues the Boot and Shoo business at his old stand,
Soudt ol the Planter's Hotel, where he may uiways be
found ready to serve his patrons.
He lias now on hand, 1,000 pair of heavy doaklo
soled (sewed) Negro Shoes, of Ilia own manufacture,
which lie i“ selling at cost.
A'so, ISO pair of Gentlemen'* Calf and Kpßoala,
double and single soles; together with ulinosl every
oilier article usually kept in his line.
He has just rtclved, a verv lirge and well selected
supply of Ladies’ and children’s Shoes, of the latest
styles.
Also, a fine lot of gentlemens’ Silk Ilais—a superior
ar icle, at extremely low prices.
, JOHN PECK.
N B. The trade can be furnished with almost all
the articles thev requ're, besides any quantity of Sole-
Leather, at.d nlfand Linin/ Sinus,'ot which he has
u large supply on hand. . ...
November 12 tt 33’ *